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Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by prawn » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 1:43 PM UTC

bithush wrote: post #58

unwind wrote: post #4

Fantastically annoying page design. Scrolling takes many seconds to just show the next page, with no indication that anything is happening. Just blank blackness. Then each page requires you to hunt and click little circles with pluses in them, just to show a paragraph or two of copy. Would it have killed them to just present all the text at once? Perhaps use tabs or some other "normal" solution to the problem of want…

Clearly it was designed and tested in IE as that is the only browser that it actually works in. It almost kills Firefox for me.

Worked really well in Chrome/OSX for me. Transitions were a bit slow and it's not how I would build the site, but it did work.

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by nodata » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 1:43 PM UTC

uptown wrote: post #55

richbradshaw wrote: post #2

Is pricing available yet? I've been thinking about a robot vacuum since I moved into a new house with all hard floors.

According to the DailyMail, it will cost around £750, or around $1230. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2743185/Dyson...

£750 is normally around $750

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by psychometry » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 1:43 PM UTC

unwind wrote: post #4

Fantastically annoying page design. Scrolling takes many seconds to just show the next page, with no indication that anything is happening. Just blank blackness. Then each page requires you to hunt and click little circles with pluses in them, just to show a paragraph or two of copy. Would it have killed them to just present all the text at once? Perhaps use tabs or some other "normal" solution to the problem of want…

Yet another site made by a designer who doesn't care how you want to use a website because they know better.

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by radicaledward » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 1:43 PM UTC

This is the first scroll to navigate page I've encountered that worked for me at all. I can see from the comments that others are not having as much luck. This new trend seems to be a horrible waste of time (for both devs and end users). I hope it goes away soon. The page is kind of cool if it works though.

As for Dysons, my parents are on their second one. The first one still mostly works, but a small clip in the back broke off. It will no longer stand up on its own. I have a small hand held one and it is really quite nice. They are definitely a bit fragile, but when they work they really work well.

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by sjs382 » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 1:44 PM UTC

It looks tall. So tall that it might not fit under my couch or under the first-level of some tables. Anyone know the dimensions of this?

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by msabalau » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 1:44 PM UTC

xexers wrote: post #13

So, it drives around your home with WiFi internet access and a 360 degree video camera. Privacy concerns?

Given that 50 million domestic workers are employed worldwide in people's homes, perhaps many people won't actually waste their time worrying about the "privacy" implications of a device which presumably isn't designed to upload video, but instead receive smartphone instructions.

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 1:45 PM UTC

unwind wrote: post #4

Fantastically annoying page design. Scrolling takes many seconds to just show the next page, with no indication that anything is happening. Just blank blackness. Then each page requires you to hunt and click little circles with pluses in them, just to show a paragraph or two of copy. Would it have killed them to just present all the text at once? Perhaps use tabs or some other "normal" solution to the problem of want…

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Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by melling » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 1:46 PM UTC

veidr wrote: post #63

melling wrote: post #54

So, the HN comments are pretty much negative. People seem to be overlooking the most important thing. A hugely successful product in this category will be the spark that launches the home robotics revolution. More players, more money invested, etc. I'm really not sure why robots aren't already vacuuming our floors, raking the leaves and mowing our lawns by now.

Well, I think this already happened. About half the families I know have a Roomba robot vacuum or a knockoff. But it's a big step from vacuuming floors to mowing lawns with sharp blades. I don't personally have a leaf problem, but I would very much like to see a clever window-washing robot. Could be -- would preferably be! -- very slow and small. Something that runs constantly and could go home and charge/clean itsel…

You are giving anecdotal information, which is quite misleading. 10 million Roomba's have been sold worldwide, for example.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roomba

Here's a list of the number of households to illustrate the the market is still young.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_o...

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by jonnydark » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 1:47 PM UTC

bglazer wrote: post #26

Lots of negativity in the comments. A couple questions: 1. For the robotics people, is the "360° eye" camera an innovation, or is this already a standard component of robotic vision? 2. What's the next step for robotics in the house after vacuums?

The innovation is mostly in using the monoscopic 360 degree camera in such a way that it can do SLAM.

Re: Dyson 360 Eye

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Post by wcchandler » Thu, Sep 04, 2014, 1:47 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #54

So, the HN comments are pretty much negative. People seem to be overlooking the most important thing. A hugely successful product in this category will be the spark that launches the home robotics revolution. More players, more money invested, etc. I'm really not sure why robots aren't already vacuuming our floors, raking the leaves and mowing our lawns by now.

> I'm really not sure why robots aren't already vacuuming our floors, raking the leaves and mowing our lawns by now

I think about this every time I mow my lawn. I had this crazy vision:

Take a flatbed trailer and hook up "charging pods".

Invest in some robot lawn mowers. This would be fun as they'll probably need to be built yourself. They could have a deck size of whatever (12" ?) with big batteries, solar collectors (maybe), wireless communications, some kind of camera or a way to "see" obstacles.

Deploy multiple ones at a single site... maybe 4 on a .25 acre lot?

Have them all communicate with relative proficiency in determining who should mow where and what and for how long.

Once they are all done, they go back to the trailer and into their pod where they will charge until the next site.

Then go from site to site like any other lawn care specialist.

On each location you would have a couple human operators (who will also be driving the trailers). These people will operate the more delicate things like trimming. They will also provide a human element for analyzing the environment. Is there a dog outside? Maybe the operator has a smart phone and "tags" that object which gets transferred to the mowers and they know to avoid it.

If you could get the price down far enough it might be able to compete in a number of markets.